
Associate Partner @bellwetherorg | Past: National Voices Fellow @FiftyCAN, @HarvardSDP Data Fellow, @KyDeptofEd, @kystats | Views = my own.
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Alex Spurrier retweeted
Job alert: @AEI's ed policy team is hiring a (senior) data analyst. Large datasets, real policy questions, Stata/R/Python. NLP & ETL pipeline experience a plus.
Big shoes to fill, left by Sam Hollon.
Please share widely.
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Welles Crowther, a former Boston College lacrosse player who had a trademark red bandana, was working in New York on Sept. 11, 2001.
This is the story of how he led people to safety after terrorists struck the World Trade Center.
Alex Spurrier retweeted
A poem by Wendell Berry, who died yesterday at age 92. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/vV…
Listen to Dolly and read Wendell.
RIP.
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America, start your engines.
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📍 Seattle, Washington
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USA vs. Belgium Hype - Free Bird by MOONLGHT
Top 3 coursework-related artifacts generated by Claude users:
📝 Academic paper / thesis
👨🏻🏫 Educational material
🧮 Math/calculation
Replying to @AnthropicAI
The Econ Index now tracks artifacts—the primary output Claude produces in a session. We looked across Claude conversations and compared how often each artifact was used for work, coursework, or personal life.
Blogging is mostly a work activity; translation falls in between.
Alex Spurrier retweeted
Want to hear some diverging ideas on AI even from people who work on the same team? New Wonkyfolk with Mary Wells and Marissa Mission from @bellwetherorg
charterfolk.org/captivate-po…
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We should be increasing swimming not decreasing it, basic life survival skill and a lot of avoidable drownings each year.
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There is nothing in high school sports like the MN state hockey tournament.
The Class AA State Championship at Grand Casino Arena on Saturday between Minnetonka and Moorhead had more attendance than 11 NHL games. #Stateofhockey
Here is Saturday's attendance report.
Alex Spurrier retweeted
“Republican lawmakers in Kentucky last week passed a bill to opt the state into the federal tax credit scholarship program—the only school choice opportunity for Bluegrass State children. Now Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear has a political choice to make.”
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Even if you believe Anthropic is wrong on the merits, this response makes America weaker, not stronger.
The Administration's own AI Action Plan calls for "aggressively adopting AI within the Armed Forces." Instead, with potential military action against Iran on the near horizon, we're ripping out the only frontier AI model on classified systems because of a contract dispute over terms that Pentagon officials admit were never actually triggered.
The AI Action Plan frames everything as a race against China. Blacklisting Anthropic hands China a strategic gift.
The Admin's foundation EO is literally titled "Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence." A supply chain risk designation against a leading American AI company isn't removing barriers, it's erecting a wall that goes well beyond anything California or Colorado ever contemplated.
The December EO states: "It is the policy of the United States to sustain and enhance the US's global AI dominance through a minimally burdensome national policy framework for AI." The admin just imposed the single most burdensome regulatory action ever taken against a domestic AI company.
The supply chain designation cascades far beyond defense: every company with Pentagon contracts must now certify they don't use Anthropic, sending ripple effects through pharma, health systems, and research institutions. It could set back cancer research: for example Flatiron Health, a Roche affiliate, uses Claude to extract cancer progression data across 14 tumor types. It could slow fundamental science: Claude is deployed at Lawrence Livermore and Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, where thousands of scientists do foundational work in biomedical research, genomics, and computational biology.
But perhaps the most revealing lesson is that the AI Action Plan was never binding. It was a set of stated principles that could be, and just were, discarded the moment they became inconvenient.
This week, Anthropic delivered a master class in arrogance and betrayal as well as a textbook case of how not to do business with the United States Government or the Pentagon.
Our position has never wavered and will never waver: the Department of War must have full, unrestricted access to Anthropic’s models for every LAWFUL purpose in defense of the Republic.
Instead, @AnthropicAI and its CEO @DarioAmodei, have chosen duplicity. Cloaked in the sanctimonious rhetoric of “effective altruism,” they have attempted to strong-arm the United States military into submission - a cowardly act of corporate virtue-signaling that places Silicon Valley ideology above American lives.
The Terms of Service of Anthropic’s defective altruism will never outweigh the safety, the readiness, or the lives of American troops on the battlefield.
Their true objective is unmistakable: to seize veto power over the operational decisions of the United States military. That is unacceptable.
As President Trump stated on Truth Social, the Commander-in-Chief and the American people alone will determine the destiny of our armed forces, not unelected tech executives.
Anthropic’s stance is fundamentally incompatible with American principles. Their relationship with the United States Armed Forces and the Federal Government has therefore been permanently altered.
In conjunction with the President's directive for the Federal Government to cease all use of Anthropic's technology, I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk to National Security. Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic. Anthropic will continue to provide the Department of War its services for a period of no more than six months to allow for a seamless transition to a better and more patriotic service.
America’s warfighters will never be held hostage by the ideological whims of Big Tech. This decision is final.
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There is absolutely a case that the US government needs to exert more political control over A.I. as a technology given what its own architects say about where it's going and how world-altering it might become. But the best case for that kind of political exertion is fundamentally about safety and caution and restraint. The administration is putting itself in a position where it's perceived to be the incautious party, the one removing moral and technical guardrails, exerting extreme power over Anthropic for being too safety-conscious and too restrained. Just as a matter of politics that seems like an inherently self-undermining way to impose political control over A.I.
“Many large purchases had been made at the discretion of former Superintendent Pollio, w/o sufficient oversight from the finances department or the Board of Ed”
“The district used temporary or nonrecurring funds, such as COVID relief money, to expand programs and staffing”
JCPS draft audit finds lack of financial oversight from board, CFO courier-journal.com/story/ne…
Alex Spurrier retweeted
I'm launching a new project on how A.I. is changing writing instruction. Professors and high school teachers -- we need your help! Please fill out this brief survey: nytimes.com/2026/02/23/us/ai…
Please pray for those involved, their families, and the first responders in Louisville.
Muhammad Ali International Airport in Louisville, Kentucky is currently closed to arriving and departing flights, following the crash of (UPS2976), a McDonnell Douglas MD-11 being operated as a cargo plane by UPS Airlines that had just taken-off from the UPS Worldport in Louisville. A massive fire is currently burning near the airport — engulfing several nearby buildings — with a shelter-in-place order having been issued for a five-mile radius around Muhammad Ali.
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You shouldn’t need little fireworks graphics every time you turn the page of Moby Dick to keep going.
Maye to Boutte bombs are my new favorite Sunday tradition #gopats
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Amazing how much education, and political, world still talks of school choice in terms of "if" when real questions are increasingly about when and how. @rpondiscio gets at that here @educationgadfly.
(And we're so polarized people don't get how much is self-inflicted.)




























